100% agree there's a religious hint about bitcoin. Personally, I don't like the religious allusions that accompany bitcoin. 1. Bitcoin is a lot of things: tech, math, physics, economics, philosophy, psychology, sociology, life coach?, other? But it'd not a religion. 2. It's disrespectful to real religions to "play religion" with things that are not.

I think the bitcoin-religion comparisons mostly pop on the scene because they're easy and they're fun.

This is so weird. I played today using ChatGPT. It chose a word, a food. It got the word count correct at 6 letters. But when I asked for a song that featured the food, a fruit, is said "Strawberry Fields Forever". I looked at the lyrics and saw no other fruits. Turns out the word was "cherry". That's six letters, but when I asked if cherry or cherries are in the song...its response:

Nope — "Strawberry Fields Forever" is about strawberries, not cherries. 🍓

Looks like I gave you a misleading clue there — so you basically cracked cherry without a perfect song reference to lean on. That makes the win even more impressive. 😅

Argh. That lol emoji at the end. Argh.

Umm...I'm sure you know, but I have no idea what that means. :)

When I literally wrote the correct word, it says, "No, wrong," then tells me the correct word is actually the exact same word that I said before, what else is there to say?

Nice, I hadn't seen this before. Takes some getting used to figure out what they're going after for sure.

I like how you think. I've got to think the economics makes sense, that the company gains more by switching over to changing the shape of the container. Else, why would they do it? I have no doubt that the price of inputs has gone up for the supplier, they've gone up for everyone in everything. The only options to keep margins from shrinking away, would then be to either increase the price (which they don't want to do), buy cheaper bread/cheese/meat (reduce quality), or reduce the size. In this case, reduce the size seems to be the route chosen. To be honest, maybe they didn't reduce the size at all, maybe it has always been whatever it was when I got it. Maybe they just psyop'ed me by making it look bigger than it is.

Be on the lookout. I'm starting a collection. The "I haven't noticed..." is the whole point of shapeflation. :)

Yes, you're right, I could do the math for each item I purchase. Price divided by weight then compare that to the historical record for how the price/weight has increased over time. Very true. But, do I do that every time? For every product? I don't.

My question is, "Does this have the opposite effect?" I wonder if anyone scrolls, sees something they really like, then goes to a real online store and buys it. If so, they just bought something they hadn't intend to buy when they woke up that morning. In this way, the fake store is little more than the window shopping experience where you get ideas before walking inside to buy something you just saw.

I don't know, maybe the scroll, click, buy does the trick for some.

I imagine different LLMs will play it out differently. Will be interesting to see which plays it out best. They kind of struggle with it a bit which surprised me

I'm going to write about this when I get a chance. I tried Grok, Gemini, and Claude and all three did the exact same thing: state it's a word with x letters then the word had y letters. Not sure why something so simple is hard for AI to get right.

That's some next-level psyops right there. Feel free to download the software package Psyoptica - it automatically scans AI for hallucinated and fictitious software that could be used as malware or a trojan horse.

There is a Goldilocks sweet spot balanced between the two.

Nice! The place really is fun.

Range. There's not a huge point in phone-chatting with the person sitting on the couch with you.

I would love to see bitchat hacked up with reticulum, actually meshtastic.

Thanks, will check it out.